These principles presuppose that judges are accountable for their conduct to appropriate institutions established to maintain judicial standards, which are themselves independent and impartial, and are intended to supplement and not to derogate from existing rules of law and conduct which bind the judge.
Estos principios presuponen que los jueces son responsables de su conducta frente a las instituciones correspondientes establecidas para mantener los estándares judiciales, que dichas instituciones son independientes e imparciales y que tienen como objetivo complementar y no derogar las normas legales y de conducta existentes que vinculan a los jueces.